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Christiane Kunst lässt in ihrer Sammlung antiker Quellen zum Themenbereich "Römische Wohn- und Lebenswelten" die Zeitgenossen selbst zu Wort kommen. Literarische Quellen und epigraphische Zeugnisse, die zweisprachig, lateinisch und deutsch, vorgelegt werden, vermitteln ein anschauliches Bild der antiken Stadt in ihren konkreten Wohn- und Lebensverhältnissen.

Manetti's early years, marriage, and first public offices -- Eloquence at home and abroad, 1437-1448 -- Pistoia -- Venice and other cities, 1448-1453 -- Life in exile -- Scholarship in rome -- Naples, 1455-1459, late works and last years -- Contemporary reputation and posthumous fortune.

"Coming to terms with the rhetorical arts of antiquity necessarily illuminates our own ideas of public discourse and the habits of speech to which they have led. Tacitus wrote the Dialogus at a time (ca. 100 CE) when intense scrutiny of the history, the definitions, and the immediate relevance of public speech were all being challenged and refashioned by a host of vibrant intellects and ambitious practitioners. This book challenges the notion that Tacitus sought to explain the decline of oratory under the Principate. Rather, from examination of the dynamics of argument in the dialogue and the underlying literary traditions there emerges a sophisticated consideration of eloquentia in the Roman Empire. Tacitus emulates Cicero's legacy and challenges his position at the top of Rome's oratorical canon. He further shows that eloquentia is a means by which to compete with the power of the Principate"--

In the Main City of Gdańsk, a certificate of the city council's control over the legal guardians of children who lost one or both parents, are two books of minors from 1441-1460 and 1451-1460. The supervision of the registers of this type was exercised by the masons. These entries included entries regarding the property of minors entrusted by their guardians to the municipal council for safekeeping. These books also show the further fate of funds belonging to minors and financial operations carried out by their guardians (eg investments in the pension market). They are also an interesting source for research on Gdansk's financial policy in the times of political change, such as the Thirteen Years' War